shape of a button control

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hi all,
i want to know that is it possible to give button control any other shape says a polygon
waiting for answer
neaS

Posted 6-Aug-11 2:02am

neeraj24may

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walterhevedeich 6-Aug-11 8:05am

Windows Forms or ASP.Net?

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Here you go

Pulse Button[^]
Enhanced GlassButton using GDI+[^]
For more browse here Button Controls @ Codeproject[^]

EDIT
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SA is right. Found this in MSDN. Control.Region Property[^]. Go ahead

Posted 6-Aug-11 2:47am

thatraja

Updated 6-Aug-11 17:39pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-Aug-11 22:55pm

Raja, I cannot vote before I review the code. Number of articles advise wrong way. Please look at my solution to see what I mean.
I reviewed the article referenced by Ravi and found it's wrong, and then I saw yours -- don't want to review them all. If you could look at the codes and select those using Region and confirm it, it will be a really correct answer. Right now I cannot be 100% sure.
Thank you.
--SA

thatraja 6-Aug-11 23:37pm

You right. I suggested him custom controls. But your option is really new to me because I didn't work with those kind of things. BTW who needs non rectangular buttons :D

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-Aug-11 23:52pm

Fashion! But not only. When many CodeProject articles about buttons were written, they were in high demand. Also -- "liquid buttons", all together. MAC OS presentation systems encouraged people to have something like that. I can explain why I happened to make some -- a servo-driven mechanical stages. If you have a mechanical stage with 3-4 degrees of freedom where most motion if done in a plane, you naturally need a control with 8 buttons in 8 directions (in 45 degrees increment) plus one or more rotational one. Rectangular buttons would be not so elegant in this case.
--SA

thatraja 7-Aug-11 0:21am

Agree. Normally In web I like non-rectangular buttons using images. But in windows application normal one is fine(Because I'm not interested in win forms :) & I like to work in web app).

Solution 2

Try
Custom Button with Color and Shape[^]

Posted 6-Aug-11 2:34am

RaviRanjanKr

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-Aug-11 22:51pm

Sorry, Ravi, this is not a correct article. I downloaded and review the code -- it cannot trick me into thinking it implements non-rectangular buttons. (I did not vote this time.)

How do I know that it's incorrect? Please see my solution.
--SA

Solution 1

You can use this

private void button1_MouseEnter(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Button sender1 = (Button)sender;
    sender1.Height += 30;
    sender1.Width += 30;
    sender1.Top -= 15;
    sender1.Left -= 15;
}
 
private void button1_MouseLeave(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Button sender1 = (Button)sender;
    sender1.Height -= 30;
    sender1.Width -= 30;
    sender1.Top += 15;
    sender1.Left += 15;
}

Posted 6-Aug-11 2:19am

advancedansh

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 6-Aug-11 22:57pm

Totally, totally irrelevant to OP's question. And why doing this ugly position/size manipulation at all?
--SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-06T16:50:00

Here is the key: to give a button really non-rectangle shape, you need to assign its Region property, naturally, to a non-rectangular Region. You can even produce non-rectangular Form!

There is a number of works (one of them is referenced by Ravi) which fail to do it and produce only a look of non-rectangular button, but the control is in fact rectangular. It's easy to find out that the implementation is louse: click in the corner (or a place of the rectangular bounding area which is not supposed to belong to a button). If Region is not set up, the button will behave as clicked even though it is not supposed to do so.

Assign Region — this is the only correct way.

—SA

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